Never thought I would be making one of these posts to be honest, but Altbot had an outage for about a day because my VPS tunnel just completely died on me. I can't even connect to it anymore.

Altbot is back online now but running on backup infrastructure (aka "crutches"). Between being sick with a fever and my car's A/C deciding to break (several thousand $ to fix :/), it's been a rough week to say the least.
I really need to upgrade Altbot to a more reliable VPS setup. If you value having Altbot around and can spare some support, it would mean the world to me:

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also looking for a VPS with high bandwidth (3TB+/month) or unlimited. im sick and tired of cheaping out on a VPS and then that being the failure point of my whole infrastructure. any suggestions appreciated!

thanks for your patience during the outage and for helping make the Fediverse more accessible! <3
#Altbot #Accessibility#Fediverse#Support #MutualAidRequest #mutualaid

As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

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